Yeah, then the dinosaurs force you to drip water down the back of your hand and try to predict its path… Not sure why…
Just like a bar to get all liquored up and wander out into the middle of an interstate.
Seriously, I hope everybody is getting along as best as can be expected. It’s going to be rough for a while for that area. And Ivan has even flooded parts as far north as Pittsburgh AFAICT from other threads out here. He’s not going to be fondly remembered.
I left here about 12:30 on noon Tuesday. Unfortunately, so did everybody else. Our little caravan (my mom, my boyfriend, and me) took 24 hours to get to Lufkin, TX, where we had a couple of rooms arranged. I got home yesterday afternoon. The house never even lost power, and my boyfriend’s place is fine as well. sigh But when a cat 4 storm is aiming at New Orleans, the only reasonable thing to do is leave; we’re horribly vulnerable. We just got lucky this time.
Hang on, any and all Dopers this thing affected. What the heck were they thinking calling a storm Ivan???
heeeeee’s baaaaaack!!! ivan returns off of texas!
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/pub/forecasts/discussion/MIATCDAT4
just when you thought it was safe to go into the gulf!
This is nuts.
"After hitting Florida on Sept. 16 as a hurricane, Ivan weakened and broke apart as it traveled north, drenching southern and mid-Atlantic states before returning to sea. Its remnants then swung southward, growing slightly as it traveled over warmer waters.
The regenerated storm was expected to make landfall in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday night, and could bring 50 mph winds and 5 to 10 inches of rain.
Ivan already has kicked seas up several feet, posing a threat to fragile barrier islands and their beaches in both states, and forced some offshore oil and gas crews to head home.
“It looks like from what they told us earlier that probably we’ll see some minor coastal flooding, beach erosion sometime tomorrow,” said Tesa Duffey-Wrobleski, Galveston County’s emergency management coordinator.
In Louisiana, Cameron Parish leaders were keeping an eye on the storm, but hadn’t issued any evacuation orders yet, said Emergency Preparedness Director Freddie Richard Jr. The swampy parish is located in the southwest corner of the state.
“We’re just advising people in low-lying areas in Cameron Parish to prepare to move to higher ground if the tides come up,” he said.
The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Gulf of Mexico shoreline from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana west to Sargent, Texas.
Ivan was upgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday evening…"
As of 11am, Ivan had sustained winds of 60mph, gusts to 70.
If it veers a bit WSW, it could actually become a hurricane again before making landfall. Who’d’a thunk it?
We could be doing this for a while.
That might not make sense if you’re reading this after Sep 23. If so, several tracking models had Ivan making landfall, then turning and going back into the Gulf.
To make matters worse, Jeanne is taking a bead on Miami!